Few-Shot Learning papers, 2023–2026
Meta-learning and few-shot
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 898 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Few-Shot Learning fell from 251 papers in 2023 to 224 in 2026, so interest is cooling.
- CVPR publishes the most Few-Shot Learning work: 303 papers from 2023 to 2026, 34% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 4 in 2023 to 24 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Meta-Learning and Transfer, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Foundation Model Adaptation, is up 3.8x versus 0.9x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 76 | 56 | 40 | 79 | 251 |
| 2024 | 64 | 38 | 37 | 81 | 220 |
| 2025 | 68 | 36 | 35 | 64 | 203 |
| 2026 | 51 | 38 | 56 | 79 | 224 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026BAPM: Boundary-Aware Prompt Mining for Training-Free Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation
- ICML 2026Bayes-inspired Integration of Pretrained Priors and Few-Shot Evidence for Few-Shot Classification
- ICLR 2026Adaptive Concept Discovery for Interpretable Few-Shot Text Classification
- CVPR 2026A Closer Look at Cross-Domain Few-Shot Object Detection Fine-Tuning Matters
- NeurIPS 2025A Few Moments Please: Scalable Graphon Learning via Moment Matching
- ICML 2025FedBEns: One-Shot Federated Learning based on Bayesian Ensemble
- ICLR 2025Dist Loss: Enhancing Regression in Few-Shot Region through Distribution Distance Constraint
- CVPR 20253D Prior Is All You Need: Cross-Task Few-shot 2D Gaze Estimation
- NeurIPS 2024Few-shot Algorithms for Consistent Neural Decoding (FALCON) Benchmark
- ICML 2024Accelerating Convergence in Bayesian Few-Shot Classification
- ICLR 2024Few-shot Hybrid Domain Adaptation of Image Generator
- CVPR 2024Deformable One-shot Face Stylization via DINO Semantic Guidance
- NeurIPS 2023Alignment with human representations supports robust few-shot learning
- ICML 2023A Category-theoretical Meta-analysis of Definitions of Disentanglement
- ICLR 2023Bidirectional Language Models Are Also Few-shot Learners
- CVPR 2023A Meta-Learning Approach to Predicting Performance and Data Requirements
- NeurIPS 2026Beyond Normal References: Discriminative Few-Shot Anomaly Detection
- ICML 2026BiCrossNet with Decoupled Dual Generators: A Parameter‑Efficient and Generalizable Few‑Shot Custom Gesture Recognition Framework
- ICLR 2026Dual Distillation for Few-Shot Anomaly Detection
- CVPR 2026Beyond Patches Global-aware Autoregressive Model for Multimodal Few-Shot Font Generation
All Few-Shot Learning papers
897 papers, page 3 of 18
- ICLR 2026Neural Force Field: Few-shot Learning of Generalized Physical Reasoning
- ICLR 2026OBS-Diff: Accurate Pruning For Diffusion Models in One-Shot
- ICLR 2026One-Shot Exemplars for Class Grounding in Self-Supervised Learning
- ICLR 2026pFedMMA: Personalized Federated Fine-Tuning with Multi-Modal Adapter for Vision-Language Models
- ICLR 2026Point-UQ: An Uncertainty-Quantification Paradigm for Point Cloud Few-Shot Class Incremental Learning
- ICLR 2026Preserve and Sculpt: Manifold-Aligned Fine-tuning of Vision-Language Models for Few-Shot Learning
- ICLR 2026REAP the Experts: Why Pruning Prevails for One-Shot MoE compression
- ICLR 2026Retain and Adapt: Auto-Balanced Model Editing for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection under Domain Shifts
- ICLR 2026SAFA-SNN: Sparsity-Aware On-Device Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning with Fast-Adaptive Structure of Spiking Neural Network
- ICLR 2026Safety at One Shot: Patching Fine-Tuned LLMs with A Single Instance
- ICLR 2026Structure-Aware Graph Hypernetworks for Neural Program Synthesis
- ICLR 2026Test-Time Mixture of World Models for Embodied Agents in Dynamic Environments
- ICLR 2026The False Promise of Zero-Shot Super-Resolution in Machine-Learned Operators
- ICLR 2026The Gaussian-Head OFL Family: One-Shot Federated Learning from Client Global Statistics
- ICLR 2026Towards Privacy-Guaranteed Label Unlearning in Vertical Federated Learning: Few-Shot Forgetting Without Disclosure
- ICLR 2026Unlocking the Power of Co-Occurrence in CLIP: A DualPrompt-Driven Method for Training-Free Zero-Shot Multi-Label Classification
- ICML 2026Bayes-inspired Integration of Pretrained Priors and Few-Shot Evidence for Few-Shot Classification
- ICML 2026Benchmarking Dense and Indiscernible Object Counting with Blueberries
- ICML 2026Beyond Description: Federated Adaptation via Semantic-Visual Prototype Alignment
- ICML 2026BiCrossNet with Decoupled Dual Generators: A Parameter‑Efficient and Generalizable Few‑Shot Custom Gesture Recognition Framework
- ICML 2026Breaking the Scale Barrier: One-Shot Knowledge Transfer via Frequency Transform
- ICML 2026Calibrating Uncertainty for Zero-Shot Adversarial CLIP
- ICML 2026CAOS: Conformal Aggregation of One-Shot Predictors
- ICML 2026Consistent Zero-Shot Imitation with Contrastive Goal Inference
- ICML 2026Decision Transformers As Zero-Shot Learners via Text-Behavior Alignment
- ICML 2026DiP-G: Discrete Prompting for Graph Neural Networks
- ICML 2026Directional Neural Collapse Explains Few-Shot Transfer in Self-Supervised Learning
- ICML 2026Distribution Alignment for One-Shot Federated Learning via Optimal Transport
- ICML 2026DNA: Uncovering Universal Latent Forgery Knowledge
- ICML 2026Few-Shot Design Optimization by Exploiting Auxiliary Information
- ICML 2026Fine-Tuning Without Forgetting In-Context Learning: A Theoretical Analysis of Linear Attention Models
- ICML 2026Fleet: Few Shots Lead Effective AI-generated Image Detection
- ICML 2026From Coarse to Fine: Deep Prototype Refinement Network for Few-Shot Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
- ICML 2026Geometry-Aware Contrastive Learning for Few-Shot Automatic Modulation Recognition
- ICML 2026Harnessing Spectrum Video for Subject-Level Few-Shot and Cross-Montage EEG Generalization
- ICML 2026Hedging on the Frontier: Learning New Tasks with Few Samples
- ICML 2026How Few-Shot Examples Add Up: A Causal Decomposition of Function Vectors in In-Context Learning
- ICML 2026Improving CLIP Adaptation by Breaking Tail Alignment for Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning
- ICML 2026Infinite Mask Diffusion for Few-Step Distillation
- ICML 2026InfoAtlas: A Foundation Model for Zero-Shot Statistical Dependence Estimate
- ICML 2026Keep Everyone Happy: Online Fair Division of Numerous Items with Few Copies
- ICML 2026Lottery Prior: Randomized Neural Compression for Zero-Shot Inverse Problems
- ICML 2026Many Experiments, Few Repetitions, Unpaired Data, and Sparse Effects: Is Causal Inference Possible?
- ICML 2026Meta-learning Structure-Preserving Dynamics
- ICML 2026Mitigating the Contractivity Trap in Diffusion ODEs via Stein Stabilization
- ICML 2026Motion Dynamics Learning for Few-Shot Embodied Adaptation
- ICML 2026On the Expressive Power of Permutation-Equivariant Weight-Space Networks
- ICML 2026One Step Forward and K Steps Back: Better Reasoning with Denoising Recursion Models
- ICML 2026One-shot Conditional Sampling: MMD meets Nearest Neighbors
- ICML 2026One-Shot Weighted Ensemble Estimation for Federated Quantile Regression: Optimal Statistical Guarantees under Heterogeneous Structured Data
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FAQ
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 898 in total: 251 in 2023, 220 in 2024, 203 in 2025, 224 in 2026.
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 51 Few-Shot Learning papers, versus 68 the year before.
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 38 Few-Shot Learning papers, versus 36 the year before.
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 56 Few-Shot Learning papers, versus 35 the year before.
- How many Few-Shot Learning papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 79 Few-Shot Learning papers, versus 64 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Few-Shot Learning papers?
- CVPR, with 303 papers from 2023 to 2026.